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The Unheard Witness: Allie K. Miller's Experience and Our Always-On AI Future
The Hidden Mic: A Catalyst for Examining Our Always-On Future Allie K. Miller, a respected figure in the AI community, recently recounted a disturbing incident. Backstage at an AI event, she was engaged in a candid discussion about AI investments and strategy with a well-known…
The Algorithm Will See You Now: FDA's AI Leap and the Human in the Loop
I was scrolling through my newsfeed, probably procrastinating on something far less interesting, when a headline from the FDA practically did a digital backflip to get my attention. They’ve just announced the success of their first AI-assisted scientific review pilot. They're also hitting the accelerator,…
The Orb's Gaze Your Ticket In, Or the New Wall?
I remember the early days of trying to prove I wasn't a robot online. It usually involved squinting at some distorted letters that looked like they’d melted in the Tel Aviv sun. CAPTCHAs, they called them. Annoying, sure, but also strangely quaint in retrospect. A…
My New Friend is a Bot, And So Are You?
I remember the early days of the internet, tinkering with code, exploring BBS boards. It felt like a digital wild west, full of possibilities and nascent communities. There was an authenticity then, even in the text-based interactions. You knew, or at least strongly assumed, there…
Nietzsche's Nightmare: The Perilous Promise of Perfect Memory
Imagine a world without forgetting. Not just remembering where you put your keys, but recalling every conversation, every nuance, every ill advised remark uttered in the heat of the moment, accessible with the speed of a database query. This isn't some distant sci fi premise…
The Sky Isn't Falling, It's Just Going Digital: A Reply to Douthat.
You stumble across an opinion piece, maybe scrolling on your phone (the irony!), and the headline hits you like a rogue notification: "An Age of Extinction Is Coming." Ross Douthat, writing in The New York Times, paints a stark picture. The digital revolution, turbocharged by…
The Hum Under the Floorboards: Why I Wrote Keep Your Day Job
There’s a question buzzing in the background radiation of our times, a low-frequency hum beneath the daily noise: "What happens when the algorithms get really good?" It’s not the stuff of science fiction anymore; it's the memo landing in your inbox, the subtle shift in…
There's no wrong in trying to find the outermost limits of productivity
A recent New York Times op-ed condemns people's desire to be uber-productive. A perspective from someone who identifies writing to-do lists as a hobby.
Slaughtering an idea
Haruki Murakami's latest is a research in self understanding. What does one need to do to get to know himself? It's a brutal, frightening process, but also one that left me, as a reader, with a warm and fuzzy feeling.
In defense of being an asshole
Jaron Lanier names 10 arguments to quit social media right now. He gives some compelling reasons but are they relevant for everybody? Book Review.
Getting Things Done
17 years after the first time, I re-read Getting Things Done. A bit less naive about it, I found quite a lot of value and a few tips that keeps my mind engine going.
On Reading, Marcel Proust
Like his longings and the rabbit hole memories opened by a Madeleine cookie, reading evokes similar sensations in Proust. It does also for me.
What makes something a digital garden?
Lately I have been thinking quite a lot about digital gardens. For me a digital garden is a beautiful publicly available somewhat-curated partial snapshot of your brain. I'll try to go over my definition in parts to help myself and whoever reads this follow my…
My predictions for the second half of 2020
2020 has been a strange cookie. Can it get any more weird? I give it my best shot and guess how things will eventually fold out for the universe and a little closer to home.
My failed attempt to build a second brain
For years I'm trying to be more productive. I outsource ideas, thoughts and memories but I'm never pleased. It took a while for me to comprehend that my problem is in philosophy and not in productivity.